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Touch in the Time of Corona
Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic
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Henriette Steiner
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity’s complex relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings? How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think through the technological and material dependencies that the pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to imagine the world beyond the pandemic—both utopian and dystopian? The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital studies.
The book:
- offers reflections on how touching and being touched is being reconfigured by the pandemic
- weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies
- reflects on the practice of cowriting
- offers reflections on how touching and being touched is being reconfigured by the pandemic
- weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies
- reflects on the practice of cowriting
Author / Editor information
Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 20, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110744767
Paperback published on:
September 20, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9783110744705
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
13
Main content:
131
Illustrations:
3
Coloured Illustrations:
27
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Cultural studies, Urban studies, Digital studies; Gender studies, anyone with interest in the pandemic
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
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